Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:20:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lost+found ??? Message-ID: <199603211620.IAA23838@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 21, 96 07:33:47 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > >As Michael Smith wrote: > > > >> > What do I need to do? > >> > >> Nothing, fsck creates them as it needs them. > > > >...thereby happily destroying arbitrary disk data if it has to extend > >the root directory and fails to find free space to do so. > > > >newfs should create it. > > I agree. Terry brought this up some time ago and I agreed with it then. I concur, the automagic stuff is fine as long as you never fill a disk, which then just happens to causes some strange panic, which fsck then goes to clean up and polity clobbers a root dir block while trying to find space to create lost+found. Not a pretty picture at all.... :-( -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603211620.IAA23838>